AI Software Engineer - Data Platform

Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features. Perplexity is seeking an experienced Software Engineer focusing on building the next-gen AI Data Platform to help revolutionize the way people search and interact online. In this role, you'll help build Perplexity’s end-to-end AI data stack and flywheel which powers all AI products, ML use cases and language models. Responsibilities include collaborating closely with AI Product, Applied ML, Post-Training and Data Science teams to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and data lakes; developing, deploying, and monitoring entire data lifecycle for ingestion, transformation, streaming and storage at high scale; implementing tools and abstractions on top of data infrastructure for a variety of analytics, recommendations, AI product and post-training use cases; working closely with product and AI teams to develop reusable data resources and design patterns. Qualifications include extensive programming and data engineering skills, proficiency in open source & distributed data processing (AWS, Spark, Flink, Iceberg), familiarity with cloud-based data services (AWS, RDS, DynamoDB), containerized infrastructure (EKS, Docker), and data streaming (Flink, Spark streaming, CDC), strong quantitative and engineering skills with experience in estimating performance at high scale, experience supporting various ML/AI engineering teams to build scalable platforms to accelerate R&D for frontier models and AI products, self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership of systems and designs, and 5+ years of industry experience in distributed systems or AI infrastructure. Seniority level

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